In December 2004, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Alfonso Arau for his work in cinema.

On 26 December 2004, the coast of the Andaman Islands was devastated by a high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

A private member's bill — the Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

* American Medical Association, AMA Says Alcohol Industry Targets Teen Girls, December 16, 2004.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

Ruth's heavy Louisville Slugger solid ash wood bat sold for $ 1. 26 million at a Sotheby's auction in December 2004.

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On December 3, 2004, the ceremony broke the Guinness World Record for Christmas caroling with 7, 514 carolers.

: On December 16, 2004, the CIA added an entry for the European Union ( EU ).

* The Growth of Inflation Symmetry, December 2004

In December 2004, the EU leaders announced that accession negotiations with Croatia would start on March 17, 2005 provided that Croatian government cooperates fully with the ICTY.

In December 2002, the EU formally invited Cyprus to join in 2004, insisting that EU membership would apply to the whole island and hoping that it would provide a significant enticement for reunification resulting from the outcome of ongoing talks.

" Images of race and redemption: The Protestant missionary contribution to Carl Meinhof's Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen ", Le Fait Missionaire: Social Sciences and Missions 15 ( December 2004 ), 59-96.

In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

# The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head — March 1, 2004 to December 5, 2004

# Thriving on Vague Objectives — December 6, 2004 to September 11, 2005

In December 2004, a tsunami generated near Indonesia caused minor shoreline erosion on Barton Point ( the northeast point of the atoll of Diego Garcia ).

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In December 2004, the Supreme Court lifted a stay thereby allowing the Brazil-based União do Vegetal ( UDV ) church to use a decoction containing DMT in their Christmas services that year.

* Lowest Confluence: in Matrūh, Egypt at-255 feet (- 78 m ), first visited by Dave Morrison, Steve Price and Tony Carlisle on December 4, 2004.

The most popular player in franchise history, " Gonzo " signed a one-year contract worth just under $ 7 million on December 7 to play for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2007 season.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

The Unreal game engine was seen as a major rival to id Software's id Tech 2 engine, and the Unreal game itself was considered to be technically superior to Quake II, which was out on the market at the same time ( between December 1997 and May 1998 ).

In December 2006, he appeared in a seasonal broadcast to rival the Queen's Christmas message.

** December – Battle in Alexandria, Egypt between the forces of Caesar and his ally Cleopatra VII and those of rival King Ptolemy XIII of Egypt and Queen Arsinoe IV.

* December 25 – King Sverker the Elder is murdered on his way to church and is soon succeeded as king of Sweden by his rival Eric Jedvardsson.

* December 16 – Emperor Go-Kameyama of Japan abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu, in order to end the nanboku-cho period of conflict between the Northern and Southern imperial courts.

* December – Mamluk sultan of Egypt Khalil is assassinated by his regent Baydara, who briefly claims the sultanate before being assassinated himself by a rival political faction.

" When GEC put MES up for sale on 22 December 1998, BAE abandoned the DASA merger in favour of purchasing its British rival.

* December – Battle of Mardia: Constantine I defeats his rival Licinius and senior officier Valerius Valens near the town of Harmanli ( Bulgaria ).

When the constitution of the Second Republic was finally promulgated and direct elections for the presidency were held on 10 December 1848, Louis-Napoléon won a surprising landslide victory, with 5. 6 million votes ( 75 %) to 1. 5 million for his closest rival, Cavaignac.

His discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's magnetic field from the poles to the equator was communicated to the Paris Institute in a memoir read by him on December 7, 1804, and its importance was attested by the speedy emergence of rival claims.

Michael's accession whetted the appetite of his former comrade-in-arms Thomas the Slav, who set himself up as rival emperor in Anatolia and successfully transferred his forces into Thrace, effectively besieging the capital in December 821.

The two rival clubs found themselves at loggerheads over legal compensation, which threatened to leave Redknapp in limbo, but with the dispute eventually resolved, Redknapp rejoined Portsmouth on 7 December 2005.

On 19 December that year, at Southend Crown Court, he was imprisoned for four months ( being freed after half of his sentence on 15 February 1991 ) but after being released, his alcoholism continued and he was involved in further alcohol-related incidents, including playing through a match during the 1993 – 94 season despite being drunk, falling down stairs and needing 29 stitches to a head wound when drunk, and letting off fire extinguishers and firing a flare gun into a disabled lavatory with team-mate Ray Parlour at Pizza Hut in Hornchurch where they were being taunted by supporters of rival clubs.

Officially incorporated on December 19, 1898, Sedro-Woolley was formed from neighboring rival towns known as Sedro and Woolley in Skagit County, northwestern Washington, inland from the Puget Sound, south of the border with Canada and north of Seattle.

On 6 December, after five days of debating, a majority of 44 present led by Justin McCarthy walked out to found a new organisation, thus creating rival Parnellite and anti-Parnellite parties.

In December 2006, Zuffa also acquired their cross-town, Las Vegas rival World Fighting Alliance ( WFA ).

Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia products.

South Belfast Brigadier John McMichael was killed by the Provisional IRA in December 1987 but it was later admitted that UDA member James Pratt Craig, a rival of McMichael's within the movement, had played a role in planning the murder.

British Satellite Broadcasting won the fifteen-year franchise in December 1986 to operate the Direct Broadcasting by Satellite System over four rival bids with a licence to operate three channels.

The Malankara Varghese murder case concerns the death of T. M. Varghese also known as Malankara Varghese, a member of Malankara Orthodox Church's managing committee and a timber merchant in 5 December 2002. On 9 May 2010 charged Father Varghese Thekkekara, a priest and manager of the Angamali diocese in the rival Jacobite Syrian Christian Church ( a part of the Syriac Orthodox Church ) with conspiracy in the murder of Malankara Varghese and named him as the prime accused.

In December 1986, the Sun-Times hired high-profile gossip columnist Michael Sneed away from the rival Chicago Tribune, where she had been co-authoring the Tribune's own " Inc ." gossip column with Kathy O ' Malley.

On the morning of December 2, after finishing second on the first ballot, rival candidate Scott Brison, moved to Rae and yet another rival candidate, Ken Dryden, moved to him after the second ballot.